Allan Streib wrote:
Anyone have internet over power line? The local REMC is
starting to roll that out here, would be some competition to
Comcast, finally. Not sure how good it is though.
It makes a _mess_ of the RF spectrum, I hear.
-- Philip
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It has been descibed as the worlds largest antenna array, broadcasting
images of naked women into space.
Yes, without aggresive notch filtering, it emliminates radio service in the
area. Once filtered, it's much less effective at delivering said images.
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Fmiser
.What really amazes me is where I live I cant get cable or DSL, I
live about 8 miles out of town but there are hundreds of houses
out here in the area. My mother lives in Rolla, KS (mapquest it)
where all the houses are MILES apart and she has DSL. Now that is
strange.
To quote I
I got DSL (and cable, incidentally, became available) two years ago.
Till then it was dialup or statelite. which wasn't gonna happen since
I don't watch the rot on TV much.
ATT is upgrading hard wiring for DSL fairly fast, but it's spotty
and state dependent. Indiana did a big push for
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:30 -0500, relng...@aol.com wrote:
What you don't know is that one thing that limits DSL is the fourteen
cable mile limit (in my area) from the C.O. Plus, the cable makeup and
whether there are any repeaters. So, straight line distance doesn't
come into it. I live about
Ya fiber to the door and Clear are really gonna start putting a hurtin
on good old comcast.
I download at work where I can get as much BW as my poor harddrive can
handle. I downloaded a torrent the other day at 6MB (not b) /S
-Rolf
Gary Hurst wrote:
took him 2 hours to get everything
Could be. The wire center is a few miles away. Far enough away that DSL
is not available,
Qwest says DSL limits are 14 cable miles from the C.O. but other factors can
make it unavailable. Such as in my neighborhood. So I signed up with Comcast
several years ago with a cable modem from Fry's
Marshall,
Verizon is rolling out the FioS not for phone or internet, but to be
able to push TV. That is where the real cash is for them since the
phone and internet side are too heavily regulated for a profit.
On Jun 18, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Marshall Booth wrote:
LarryT wrote:
DSL was
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Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] DSL
LarryT wrote:
I know you said DSL was faster over the whole time frame but I do not
believe that is the case in my area (Va) which is served by Comcast.. The
DSL provider I considered was Verizon.
I wish Cable was cheaper though!
AtT/SBC/Yahoo advertises DSL as the fastest for the
It's all a matter of features, service, and what you already have. If
you already have an analog phone line, and no cable, it doesn't make
sense to get the cable run just for Internet access. If you are using
cable for TV and your phone service, don't get DSL just for Internet
access. If you've
That is all true. In my neighborhood I have never noticed any
appreciable bandwith congestion -- we are in a semi-rural area though,
the housing density is pretty low.
Tom Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Cable claims to be the fastest is providing you are the only one
on-line in your
Jun 2007 20:17:33 -0700
From: Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] DSL
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
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All is well at the moment, but I am thinking of
switching
Curt Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I currently have DSL because Comcast wanted $100 to turn on the
cable modem... Comcast made me buy the cable modem (or rent from
them), Verizon (DSL provider) GAVE me my DSL modem which has ports
for 4 computers AND wireless. The service is cheaper and
and the switch, the switch then talks to
the DSL modem at 100Mbs and the cable modem talks to home base at the 1.5Mbs I
pay for.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:56:36 -0400
From: LarryT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] DSL
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mercedes Discussion List
mercedes@okiebenz.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] DSL
Curt Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I currently have DSL because Comcast wanted $100 to turn on the cable
modem... Comcast made me buy the cable modem (or rent from them),
Verizon (DSL provider) GAVE me my DSL modem which has ports for 4
Tom Hargrave wrote:
DSL may have a lower advertised bendwidth but the entire bandwidth is yours
all the time.
Having worked at a company that makes telecom equipment I disagree.
With DSL, the bandwidth to the 'telco equipment' is all yours. After
that it is shared. The cable company
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From: Curt Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Diesel List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] DSL
I currently have DSL because Comcast wanted $100 to turn
On 6/18/07, John Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With DSL, the bandwidth to the 'telco equipment' is all yours. After
that it is shared. The cable company just shares it earlier. For
example, the company I worked at sold DSL units you could mount on
The truth of the internet is that
Ed Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My preference in DSL over Cable is DSL solely for the fact that I've
worked Comcast tech support. I know how much they hate second and
third computers on the line behind the modem and how hard they work
to prevent it.
Strange. My cable service makes no
On 6/18/07, Allan Streib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ed Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My preference in DSL over Cable is DSL solely for the fact that I've
worked Comcast tech support. I know how much they hate second and
third computers on the line behind the modem and how hard they work
Ed Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
IU University Cable? Seriously, if your cable provider allows
multiple MACs to pass through the DOCSIS interface, I'd capitalize
on it.
No, at home. Local cable TV company's internet service. I have a
cable modem, with a 4 port + wireless router attached
On 6/18/07, Allan Streib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ed Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
IU University Cable? Seriously, if your cable provider allows
multiple MACs to pass through the DOCSIS interface, I'd capitalize
on it.
No, at home. Local cable TV company's internet service. I have
We do this in my school system, as well as at USF,
since the worst thing you can have on a LAN is some
idiot with a wireless (or wired, for that matter)
router passing out IP addresses.
My personal favorite spoof MAC address:
DE:AD:BE:EF:CA:FE
MacDan
--- Ed Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LWB250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We do this in my school system, as well as at USF,
since the worst thing you can have on a LAN is some
idiot with a wireless (or wired, for that matter)
router passing out IP addresses.
OTOH also bad is a compromised PC acting as a spam mailer, etc. which
is
LarryT wrote:
DSL was advertised as operating at about 70 or 80% of that figure.
I never experience any slow downs - weekends included. I also get 24/7
tech support and in the 4 or 5 times I;ve called I have never wait for more
than a minute. My IP provides free virus, spyware and
All is well at the moment, but I am thinking of
switching to Dish or cable for TV, phone, and internet.
Last I heard, if you could get DSL it was by far the preferred
medium to have for internet. The others were for those who
couldn't.
-- Jim
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but the entire bandwidth is yours
all the time.
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
256-656-1924
www.kegkits.com
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